Sunday, 28 September 2025

Who counts as an astronaut? Not Jeff Bezos, say new US rules

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 137 views | 0 comments

The US Federal Aviation Administration has updated its rules on who counts as a commercial astronaut, making it tougher for space tourists to earn official astronaut wings

Tags: Aviation

Source: www.newscientist.com

The eternal debate about the eternal inflation of the universe

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 142 views | 0 comments

The idea that the universe is continually inflating isn’t confirmed - but there are still some misconceptions about it, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Source: www.newscientist.com

Astronomers may have spotted a distant alien moon being born

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 158 views | 0 comments

Astronomers have spotted a disc of debris around a distant planet called PDS 70 c, and it is massive enough that the young exoplanet might be in the process of forming exomoons

Tags: Planes

Source: www.newscientist.com

How is gold made? The mysterious cosmic origins of heavy elements

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 152 views | 0 comments

We have long struggled to figure out where heavy elements like gold come from. Now we have seen them being forged in neutron star collisions - and fresh clues suggest a role for the universe's first stars

Tags: Fire , Gold , Neutrons

Source: www.newscientist.com

World’s first commercial deep-space communications antenna opens in UK

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 138 views | 0 comments

The world’s first commercial deep-space communications antenna – at the Goonhilly Earth Station in the UK - has begun work by receiving images from ESA’s Mars Express mission

Tags: Fire , Mars , OPEC

Source: www.newscientist.com

Russia is launching a new module for the International Space Station

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 184 views | 0 comments

Russia's Nauka science module is blasting off to the International Space Station after more than a decade of delays

Tags: Russia

Source: www.newscientist.com

Wally Funk and the future of female astronauts

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 144 views | 0 comments

Between 1960 and 1961, thirteen American women - all pilots - qualified as astronauts. The Mercury 13 passed the same physical tests as America’s first male astronauts, yet they never made it beyond Earth's atmosphere. Wally Funk was one of them.

Tags: Fire , Women

Source: www.newscientist.com

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has ridden his own rocket to space

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 147 views | 0 comments

Jeff Bezos, world’s wealthiest man and founder of the space company Blue Origin, has ridden his own firm’s New Shepard rocket into space on its first crewed flight

Tags: Fire

Source: www.newscientist.com

Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos set for launch on his New Shepard craft

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 137 views | 0 comments

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will attempt to make history tomorrow when his space company Blue Origin launches its first crewed mission to space after 15 uncrewed flights

Tags: Amazon , Fire

Source: www.newscientist.com

Cosmic calculation may settle debate about the rate the universe grows

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 149 views | 0 comments

The different methods we use to measure the rate of expansion of the universe have been in disagreement for years, but a relatively new method of measurement seems to be providing the first steps to resolving the dispute

Tags: Beer , Fire

Source: www.newscientist.com

Chris Mason interview: Let's tweak human DNA for life on other planets

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 149 views | 0 comments

To become an interplanetary species, we may have to genetically engineer ourselves to be more resilient, says geneticist Chris Mason. He has a 500-year plan for life away from Earth

Source: www.newscientist.com

Microbes burping methane on Mars may be right next to NASA rover

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 147 views | 0 comments

Something just a few dozen kilometres from NASA’s Curiosity rover seems to be generating methane – a finding with potential implications in the continuing search for life on Mars

Tags: Mars , Mel B. , NASA , Seal , Seat

Source: www.newscientist.com

Strange gas in Venus’s clouds may be a sign of volcanoes, not life

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 142 views | 0 comments

Phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus was considered a possible sign of life, but it could come from volcanic eruptions sending enormous plumes of lava into the air

Tags: Mel B. , Volcanoes

Source: www.newscientist.com

Richard Branson reaches the edge of space on Virgin Galactic flight

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 140 views | 0 comments

Richard Branson has finally launched to the edge of space aboard his Virgin Galactic space plane, a flight over 15 years in the making

Tags: Planes

Source: www.newscientist.com

How to spot the Milky Way in the night sky

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 156 views | 0 comments

The dark skies around the new moons of 10 July and 8 August are perfect for peering at the Milky Way's centre, says Abigail Beall

Tags: New Moon

Source: www.newscientist.com

Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 144 views | 0 comments

Jupiter blasts out strange X-ray flares that have gone unexplained for decades, and the mystery has now been solved by vibrations in the planet’s magnetic field

Tags: Beer

Source: www.newscientist.com

Virgin Galactic may finally send Richard Branson to space on 11 July

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 146 views | 0 comments

Richard Branson, billionaire founder of the space plane company Virgin Galactic, has been planning to go to space for years and may finally take a flight on the company's VSS Unity plane on 11 July

Tags: Beer , Billionaires , Planes

Source: www.newscientist.com

Crab nebula blasted out some of highest-energy gamma rays ever seen

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 145 views | 0 comments

Astronomers examining the Crab nebula have found the second highest-energy gamma ray ever spotted, which may change how we think of cosmic particle accelerators

Source: www.newscientist.com

NASA is trying a 'risky' fix for the ageing Hubble Space Telescope

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 138 views | 0 comments

NASA will attempt what has been described as a “risky” fix for the Hubble Space Telescope after several weeks of troubleshooting following an unexpected shutdown

Tags: Beer , NASA

Source: www.newscientist.com

Radio waves from black holes in some young galaxies change rapidly

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 138 views | 0 comments